Sig4Wake

Affordable Housing on Community Matters with Bill Lumaye

We are talking with Wake County Commissioner Sig Hutchinson on the state of affordable housing in the area and the steps being taken to improve it.

Q: In Wake County, what is the state of Affordable housing?

A: We are growing. There are 3,000 counties in the U.S. Wake County. In that 3,000, of large counties we are #2 fastest growing counties with 67 people moving to the area per day. What that is doing is creating a lot of demand on housing and prices are going up. As a result of those prices going up, we are moving out of the affordability space for 56,000 households here in Wake County.

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